Ghanaians clad in the national colors of red, gold and green celebrated long into the night on Friday as excitement over the national team's penalty shootout victory over Brazil in the final of the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt brought the West African nation to a standstill.
A giant oil-trading company is offering to pay thousands of Africans a settlement after a contractor illegally dumped toxic waste in West Africa three years ago.
Colombian and Mexican drug cartels have jumped the Atlantic Ocean and expanded into West Africa, working closely with local criminal gangs to carve out a staging area for an assault on the lucrative European market.
After weeks of torrential rain and flooding in West Africa, humanitarian aid agencies on the ground fear an outbreak of diseases like malaria and cholera.
Torrential rains and flooding since June have affected 600,000 people in 16 West African nations, the United Nations reported Tuesday.
At least 30 people were killed and 350,000 displaced when torrential rains soaked much of West Africa, the United Nations said Friday.
Ali Herbert has spent the last seven months being "a walking blood bank" aboard one of the the world's largest hospital ships.
At least 12 airplanes shared the trans-Atlantic sky with doomed Air France Flight 447, but none reported any problems, deepening the mystery surrounding the cause of the plane's disappearance.
The bodies of young elephants covered in the brown dirt of dried-up wells tell a heartrending story.
Incident details: "Armed pirates chased, boarded and hijacked a fishing trawler underway" southeast of Mogadishu, Somalia. "Several persons armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machetes attempting to climb onboard with use of rope" at Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.
Ghanaians clad in the national colors of red, gold and green celebrated long into the night on Friday as excitement over the national team's penalty shootout victory over Brazil in the final of the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt brought the West African nation to a standstill.
A giant oil-trading company is offering to pay thousands of Africans a settlement after a contractor illegally dumped toxic waste in West Africa three years ago.
Colombian and Mexican drug cartels have jumped the Atlantic Ocean and expanded into West Africa, working closely with local criminal gangs to carve out a staging area for an assault on the lucrative European market.
After weeks of torrential rain and flooding in West Africa, humanitarian aid agencies on the ground fear an outbreak of diseases like malaria and cholera.
Torrential rains and flooding since June have affected 600,000 people in 16 West African nations, the United Nations reported Tuesday.
At least 30 people were killed and 350,000 displaced when torrential rains soaked much of West Africa, the United Nations said Friday.
Ali Herbert has spent the last seven months being "a walking blood bank" aboard one of the the world's largest hospital ships.
At least 12 airplanes shared the trans-Atlantic sky with doomed Air France Flight 447, but none reported any problems, deepening the mystery surrounding the cause of the plane's disappearance.
The bodies of young elephants covered in the brown dirt of dried-up wells tell a heartrending story.
Incident details: "Armed pirates chased, boarded and hijacked a fishing trawler underway" southeast of Mogadishu, Somalia. "Several persons armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machetes attempting to climb onboard with use of rope" at Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.
The small fruit has the color of a cranberry, the shape of an almond and tastes like a flavorless gummy.
When the economic downturn took hold last autumn, the management team at non-profit Kiva.org made a calculated bet to curb investment, anticipating that donors would slow the volume of small loans they make to entrepreneurs in the developing world. That slowdown never came. Now, the non-profit site is racing to keep up with user demand even while planning to bring its unique form of charity to the U.S.
From the noisy and lovable Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the time-traveling DeLorean in "Back to the Future," flying cars have been a fixture of movies and science fiction that never quite cut it in the real world -- until now.
Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel believes that rival Carlos Sainz will start as favorite for the Dakar Rally -- which makes its first appearance in South America on Saturday.
I am watching a 10-year-old boy carefully burn the fur off a dead monkey. And I'm learning again why nature is the ultimate safety net for the world's rural poor, about one sixth of the world's population.
Greenpeace called on the world's electronics companies to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic waste from wealthy nations' gadgets ends up being dumped in poor countries despite laws prohibiting it
Fifteen Africans died while trying to reach Spain's southern coast in a small, overcrowded boat, Spanish officials told CNN on Thursday.
"I think that in 20 years chocolate will be like caviar," says John Mason, executive director and founder of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council (NCRC).
White House officials believe that South American cocaine traffickers are diverting shipments away from the United States to Europe
An endangered and secretive animal rarely seen in the wild has been caught on camera in West Africa.
The United Nations' anti-drugs chief has denounced celebrities such as pop star Amy Winehouse and supermodel Kate Moss, saying that their alleged drug use was helping devastate West Africa.
Charles Kimando, a doctor in Kenya, has long been frustrated with his limited arsenal of drugs to treat malaria. The parasitic disease makes its appearance after heavy rains in Embu, the central Kenyan town where he is based. Kimando has access to a drug called Arsucam, but it treats malaria with two different pills, one of which tastes terrible and sometimes has side effects. "It can be hard to get people to take the available drugs," he says.
Outside the village of Sinikosson in southwestern Ivory Coast, along a trail tracing the edge of a muddy fishpond, Madi Ouedraogo sits on the ground picking up cocoa pods in one hand, hacking them open with a machete in the other and scooping the filmy white beans into plastic buckets. It is the middle of the school day, but Madi, who looks to be about 10, says his family can't afford the fees to send him to the nearest school, five miles away. "I don't like this work," he says. "I would rather do something else. But I have to do this."
David Beckham's trip to West Africa made a profound impression on the soccer star.
David Beckham made a secret trip to West Africa's Sierra Leone last weekend on behalf of the international children's charity UNICEF.
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A transport vehicle hit a land mine in tense northern Mali on Thursday, killing 10 people, a government statement said. Others were injured, but the statement did not say how many.
As more tourists spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity, a former war correspondent offers a word of caution
Twenty years ago, Corporate America and environmentalists squared off regularly and acrimoniously across the globe. Today, large companies can't stop talking about their green initiatives, and groups like Rainforest Alliance (RA) deserve a slice of the credit.
THE BACKGROUND Avian flu, SARS, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases have the potential to wipe out entire populations. But early detection and quick response are tough in many developing countries, where ...
The background: Avian flu, SARS, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases have the potential to wipe out entire populations. But early detection and quick response are tough in many developing countries, where more than 12 million people die annually from infectious diseases.
"It's a good rule in life never to apologize," wrote English humorist P.G. Wodehouse, of Jeeves and Wooster fame. "The right sort of people don't want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
Just imagine for a moment that everything you own -- from your hard-earned money to your home to your car to little mementos like pictures on the wall -- has just been taken from you by a group of people who don't like the way you look or the shade of your skin or the shape of your nose. Everything gone except, perhaps, the clothes on your back.
When you've phoned in sick, have any of your co-workers ever been thoughtful enough to come over and regurgitate blood into your mouth? If not, then your team doesn't have anything on vampire bats,...
Copper topping $8,000 a ton? Just a few years ago the metal ranged from $1,300 to $3,000 a ton. Demand from China plus hedge fund speculators equals crazy prices. It now costs 1.23 cents to make a penny. This shall not stand.
Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor -- known as "Pappy" to his band of child soldiers -- is a wanted man in West Africa.
Although the ethical consumer has long campaigned against sweatshop labor dependent on young children working long hours for a pittance, the definition of a principled purchase has widened to include the fabrics themselves.
A rowdy air passenger was cast away on a remote Atlantic island after abusing crew and other travelers aboard a holiday flight from the UK to the Spanish Canary Islands.
A water company that puts all of its profits into clean water projects in developing countries has created an environmentally friendly bottle out of biodegradable plastic.
Tropical Storm Harvey brushed Bermuda Thursday and moved over the open waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, where forecasters predicted it would linger for a few days.
The aid agencies caring for more than a thousand starving children at a refugee camp in southern Niger will believe reports of food airlifts when the help actually arrives.
The United Nations on Thursday will begin airlifting 44 tons of emergency food rations to famine-stricken Niger in West Africa, where 80,000 people are starving and more than a million others are at risk, officials said.
The U.N. refugee agency Saturday said thousands of Togolese are fleeing to neighboring west African countries because of the political violence and instability in Togo this week.
Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel clinched his second straight Dakar Rally title in the car category, adding to his six wins in the motorcycle race, when the event finished in Senegal's capital Sunday.
The sonorous voice is familiar around the world. No matter what the crisis of the day, Kofi Annan's soft baritone always manages to convey a sense of imperturbable gravitas.
Ivory Coast rebels have rejected South African brokered peace talks, saying they would only consider participating if President Laurent Gbago was not in charge.
A small commercial passenger plane has crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gabon in West Africa, killing at least 14 of the 30 people aboard, the airline said.
Delicious for nibbling, invaluable for developing your palate--and irreplaceable in the kitchen. Once you start baking with the best, there's no going back.
This past year it wasn't just the stock market taking us for a wild ride. As we moved closer to war with Iraq, oil prices jumped from $20 to nearly $40 a barrel. By late March they'd fallen to abou...
Although she spends her days curating art exhibits and visiting collectors, life was not always so peaceful for Erika Amoako-Agyei. At one time, war was part of the job. In 1996 the naturalized Ame...
While economists prognosticate about oil prices and politicians fret about the conflict brewing over Iraq, the U.S. is jockeying to secure oil from West Africa. Global demand, meanwhile, is set to ...
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Bands of armed thugs roam across stateless territories in endless battles over scarce resources. Refugees pour into cities from the barren countryside. Epidemics are rife. Crime and warfare become ...
The hurricane season is here again, insurance companies are trapped in Florida, and the long-range weather forecast is not particularly sunny. By studying such factors as rainfall patterns over Wes...
A MOONLIT BEACH. A man. A boy. A peg leg. The leg's owner speaks: ''Aharrrh, Jim. Now it pains Ol' Long John somethin' fierce to have to leave 'ee, suddenlike. But there's a load o' Sony Watchmans ...
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There's an awful lot of cocoa in Brazil. And in Malaysia and in West Africa. Gill & Duffus Group, a London commodities firm, forecasts a 1987-88 world crop of 2.1 million metric tons. That's about ...
Six months exploring the Indian subcontinent? A jaunt up the 1,600-mile Orinoco? Hiking the Himalayas? Exotic, exciting and extended describe the kind of trips that appeal to retirees today. But wi...
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